Bush says it's "hard to tell" if casualties will keep mounting in Iraq

[Robbien]

(Fort Hood, Texas-AP) April 11, 2004 - President Bush says more American casualties may come in Iraq, but, "we're plenty tough."

Bush attended an Easter Sunday service at Fort Hood, Texas, a base that has lost at least nine service members in the past week of fighting.

. . . .


Bush met with 11 soldiers at a military hospital, awarding Purple Heart medals to 10 of them.


http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1776533

[boobooday]

1. We're plenty tough

That would be the royal "we" not the actual "we."



http://www.wgoeshome.com

[benburch]

2. Hard to tell...

I find it hard to tell if I will continue to obey the civil authorities in this country when the supposed leader speaks out of his bunghole like that.

[July]

38. Thanks for my morning laugh, benburch. Well put. n/t

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. It's easy to be tough

if you've never seen combat. It's easy to send people off to war when you and yours are safely at home. It's easy to be reckless with foreign policy when you've never personally faced danger.

[JoFerret]

43. And more especially if you are lacking

the empathy gene. there is something very emotionally vacant about bush. Can't wait for the bush on the Couch book to come out and identify and name his psychoses and neuroses and psychological impairments.

[Mari333]

4. God Damn him to hell. God damn him to Hell. God damn him to hell. n/t

[Maccagirl]

23. We love you Mari

You must remain strong and positive for Michael's sake.

[Barkley]

35. As much as I dislike Bush's policies, God's damnation won't help.

If anything Bush needs God's grace. And I mean the real stuff the 'Amazing Grace' ... 'once lost and now found, blind but now I see'.

I don't hate Bush at all.
Hate is what brought about 'shock and awe'.

I pray that Bush is awakened to see the humanity in the Iraqi people;
a humanity that is yearning for freedom and peace.

Besides damning Bush to hell is counterproductive because it only would make Cheney President.

[catmandu57]

40. It wasn't hate

That got us in Iraq. STUPIDITY, GREED, AND FALSE PRIDE got us into Iraq, so Mari is right to damn the chimp* to hell. Besides chaindrive is right behind this fucking moron*.

Yesterday Lunaville had the dead toll at 651, the very first thing I do after I read the news is go to Lunaville for the casualty count, so far today it was 674.
That's a pretty big jump over night, they're letting the cat out of the bag by inches.

[0007]

41. "God's damnation won't help" - - How do you know?

[schultzee]

33. Yea! God damn this chicken hawk coward. He could never fill

the shoes of just one of those poor guys over there. He would scream and pee all over himself.

[Florida_Geek]

5. Is that in Hard to Tell if the sun will raise in the morning

What a dumb shit.

[Veggie Meathead]

10. No it is hard to tell as in

1. It is hard to tell when and where the terrorists will hit
after hijacking a plane in NYC's vicinity OR
2. It is hard to tell who leaked the name of Ms.Plame to Novak.
OR
3. It is hard to tell why he was AWOL from the TANG. OR

and so on. You get the drift.

[Raenelle]

6. What do you mean "we" paleface.

In case there are some of you who don't know this very old joke, it goes like this. Tonto and the Lone Ranger are surrounded by hundreds of Indians. The Lone Ranger turns to Tonto and asks "What do we do now, Tonto?" Tonto replies: "What do you mean "we" paleface?

[rfkrocks]

7. Oh no more faux cowboy crap

Frankly i would much rather have "plenty smart and humble" replace we are "plenty tough"

[daleo]

8. All kidding aside

How could anybody say "it is hard to tell" if there will be more casualties in Iraq, at this stage. I mean how could anybody say that.

[stepnw1f]

9. Gee... if I put my hand over the flame, will it hurt?

What a despicable human being, never mind a president.

[Turbineguy]

11. The only "casualty" that interests him

is his election chances.

[Zech Marquis]

12. WE?!

if * would take his sorry ass off his fishing boat and have a photo op stroll in Fallujah without everyone taking shots at him (Marines and Iraqis alike I reckon), then his sorry ass can say how macho rough he is!!! :grr:

[Media_Lies_Daily]

13. Maybe Junior ought to personally go to Iraq and find out.

[The_Casual_Observer]

14. No big "Easter Surprise" trip to Baghdad this year??

I guess they don't make plastic hams that are as photogenic as the turkeys. Anyway that coward is shit scared a won't be leaving Crawford much less going to Iraq.

[Rockholm]

26. Here Comes Peter Cottontail..

[PartyPooper]

15. :shaking head uncontrollably:

Where does Junior come up with this crap? It's utter nonsense!

Honestly, we have to vote this idiot / sociopath out of office in November or, we're all going to be in the looney bin!

:scared:

[w4rma]

16. It's hard for him to tell it out loud because he's more concerned with his

own political life than the real lives of American soldiers, imho.

[Robbien]

17. The good news about this is

The AP story was entitled "Bush celebrates Easter with Troops in Fort Hood". But this reporter decided to retitle the news item in their own way highlighting this awful attitude of Bush&Co.

And it is in South Carolina! So some reporters are doing their job.

[w4rma]

31. The newspaper *editors* write the headlines, usually. (nt)

[mulethree]

18. Oh No! the liberal media quoted him out of context

I was thinking - what a moron of course casualties will keep mounting.

But on reading the article thats not what he said and they twisted it around when they made the headline.

[July]

39. Huh?

One paragraph talks about how almost 50 Americans and over 500 Iraqis have been killed in the past week's violence.

The next paragraph says that Bush said it's hard to tell if such violence (that killed all of these people) will continue.

I don't think the meaning's twisted. The headline doesn't put quotation marks around anything he didn't say, and its conclusion follows from the information in the paragraph.

[sspiderjohn]

19. Hard to tell . . . So send him a memo and connect the dots for him.

nt

[truthisfreedom]

20. this man needs to be put on permanent vacation.

he's not qualified to lead anything.

[skooooo]

21. I'm "plenty tough", how about you??

Or are you one of those wussy "libberalls?"

[izzie]

22. Well I just read the army has been giving folders to send Bush a ....

nice prayer, now if we could just get Bush to send them one all will be OK.

[BostonTeaParty04]

24. Good god, COUNT on more casualties, Mr. Shit for Brains!

"hard to tell." What an idiot. So, is he suggesting that it's possible that no one else will die from here on out? uh, okay. Anything is possible.

[amber dog democrat]

25. hard to tell if he CARES about mounting casualties - anywhere

My guess is that he does NOT.

[bobthedrummer]

27. We are all plenty tough when it comes to treason.

Or abusing our military to make a buck.

[opihimoimoi]

28. The Most LOLO President in all of American History. Winner hands down

Clearly lacking

[MinnFats]

29. Oh, How like Roosevelt! Oh, How like Churchill! (oh how fuggin sick)

look back at how some of the world's truly great leaders inspired their people to self-sacrifice, determination and confidence.

then look at bush:
'brang 'um on!"

"We're plenty tough"


oh, god i want to puke!

[schultzee]

34. Oh how like Alfred Newman of Mad Magazine. Bush the mess maker.

[AlFrankenFan]

30. *Stares at screen dumb founded*

Hard to tell?! Jeebus! I'm speechless!!!!!!

[schultzee]

32. What do you expect from this moron? He only reads parts of the bible

and Condiliezer has to even read him his briefings. This fundamentalist moron is destroying our country.

[LibDemAlways]

36. The dumb ass chimp, who has had everything

handed to him on a silver platter, and has never worked an honest day in his entire,
miserable life....has the unmitigated gall to pronounce "we're plenty tough" - attempting to
include his sorry ass self.....what a laughable load of shit.

His worthless twin daughters should sign up immediately and be shipped off to Iraq, along with
that annoying relative Billy Bush from the entertainment show - whose offspring is he anyway?
Doesn't Jeb have military age kids too? What are the young Bushes waiting for? They should
set the example. If Iraq is such a great idea and Bushes are so tough, why aren't they putting their
pampered asses on the line?

[Piperay]

37. "WE"?????

:wtf: big talk from chickenhawk chimpy. :puke:

[devinsgram]

42. Every time

you would think * has said the stupidist statement possible, he just says something even stupider. He just can't help outdoing himself every time, can he? He never stops amazing me on his ignorance.

[Jacobin]

44. Well, nobody told him the names of the soldiers and places

where they will be shot.......so, how's he supposed to know? The intelligence wasn't "actionable" or "specific enough".

:eyes:

[JoFerret]

45. Casualty - a euphemism for blighted lives - for

maimed, broken, damaged, wounded. It's as if it all happened by accident and the dead are fallen, not dead. But that is just a part of his language problems. Less and few - there is a difference. the fool should get up off his knees and throw himself at the feet of the families who are irreparably damaged because of his folly and plead and beg their forgiveness.